Editorial: Urban Vibrations & Their Effects Upon Built Heritage: Measurements, Characterization, & Simulations

Abstract

The numerous sources of vibration that can be recorded in the urban environment both at ground or at the top level of buildings represent a complex and largely unexplored field, whose interpretation could provide valuable information about the buildings’ structural behavior. Urban vibrations may excite constructions in many different ways, generating discomfort, structural damage, and fatigue-related issues affecting their structural health. The characterization of such urban vibrations, and their use for dynamic identification and structural health monitoring, launched an emerging, new cross-disciplinary field known as urban seismology, which engages seismologists, structural engineers, and numerical analysts. The research contributions collected in this special issue deal with this emerging topic.